Buggy body and seat brace.



N0. 657,87l. Patented Sept. ll, I900. S. J. HESTER &. J. I. CARTER.

BUGGY BUDY AND SEAT BRACE.

(Application filed July 25, 1900.)

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UNlED STATES PATENT Erica.

STEPHEN J. HESTER AND JAMES I. CARTER, OF MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY.

BuccY BODY ANDSEAT BRAGE.

SfECIFICATiON forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,871, dated September 11, 1900.

Application filed July 25, 1900.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, STEPHEN J. HEsTER and JAMES I. CARTER, citizens of the United States, residing at Mayfield, in the county of Graves and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Buggy Body and Seat Brace, of which the following is a specification. V

The invention relates to improvements in braces for supporting the seats and bodies of buggies.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of braces for supporting the bodies and seats of buggies and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive device adapted to be readily applied to a buggy and capable of ready adjustment to suit the width of the same and the height of the seat thereof and of preventing the sides of the body from giving away at the seat and at the corners when the said seat is subjected to a heavy weight.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of a portion of a buggy provided with a brace constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lower brace. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the upper brace.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 and 2 designate upper and lower braces, located above and below the seat 3 of a buggybody 4 and adapted to support both the seat and the body and prevent the latter from spreading or giving away at the seat or at the corners when the seat is subjected to a heavy strain. The bottom brace 2, which extends across the body at the front of the seat, is composed of a horizontal top portion 5 and depending sides or legs 6, which extend downward from the seat at the inner faces of the sides of the body and are secured to the bottom of the same at opposite sides thereof. The top 5 is composed of two extensible sections 7 and a central plate or section 8, provided with a bolt 9 or other suitable fastenberial No. 24,814. (No model-T ing device, which extends through longitudi nal slots 10 of the sections, whereby the latter are secured at the desired adjustment. The slotted portions of the sections 7 are tapered, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings, in order to make the brace practically of the same thickness throughout its entire length and to present substantially a smooth inner face to the front of the seat.

- The sides or legs 6 are also adjustable, being provided with adjustable lower sections 8, mounted in vertical ways formed by ribs 11, located at the opposite sides of the upper sections or body portions of the legs 6 and having undercut or straight inner edges, as desired. The ribs brace the sections 8,which are provided with longitudinal slots 12, receiving bolts 13 or other suitable fastening devices for securing the lower sections at the desired adjustment. The lower sections are provided at their lower ends with perforated plates or flanges 14, which are secured by suitable fastening devices to the bottom of the buggy, at the side beams thereof.

The top portion of the lower brace is arranged in a vertical plane and fits against the front face of the front cross-bar 15 of the seat, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and the central plate or section is provided at its top with a rearwardly-extending flange 16, which is interposed between the cross-bar and the adjacent portion of the seat. The central plate or section is provided at its lower edge with a rearwardly-projecting rib 17, which assists in supporting the adjustable sections 7.

The rearwardly-extending top flange of the central plate or section is provided with a perforation 18 for the reception of a fastening device 19, which passes through registering slots 20 of sections 21 of the top brace 1. The sections 21 of the top brace are extensible to fit the seat, and they are provided at their outer ends with upwardly-extending rearwardly-inclined arms 22, which are secured by suitable fastening devices to the inner faces of the sides of the seat, near the front ends of the same. The sections of the top brace are provided near their ends with perforations for the reception of suitable fastening devices for securing the top brace to the seat. The inner overlapped portions of the sections 21 are tapered to present a lower substantially-flat face and to provide a brace of substantially-uniform thickness. The bolt or other fastening device which passes through the registering slots of the upper brace also connects the latter with the lower brace by passing through the perforation ofv the top flange of the front plate or section.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it possesses great strength and durability and is adapted to support the body and seat of a buggy, and is capable of preventing the body from giving away at the sides and corners when the seat is subjected to a heavy weight, and'that the upper and lower braces are adjustable to suit the height of the seat and the width of the same and the body.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and the minor details of construction within the scope of the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

What we claim isl. A device of the class described comprising a lower brace having sides or legs and provided with a central flange, a top brace designed to be arranged on a seat and having upwardly-extending arms for attachment to the sides of the seat, and a fastening device connectingthe top brace and the flange of the bottom brace, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a top brace, and a bottom brace-consisting of a top portion having adjustable sections and provided with a central'plate or section secured to the said sections and connected with the top brace, and sides or legs, substantially as described.

3. A device of the class described comprising a top, brace designed to be secured to the upper faceof a seat and composed of adj ustable sections, and a bottom brace designed .to be arranged beneath a seat and composed of adjustable sections and'connec'ted with the top brace, substantially-as described.

4. In a device of the class described, the top brace designed to be arranged at the upper face of a seat and composed of overlapped sections adj ustably secured together at their inner ends, and provided at their outer ends with arms adapted to. be secured to the sides of the seat, substantially as described.

5. In a device of the class described, a bot: tom brace composed of the top sections 7 having overlapped inner ends tapered and slotted, a central plate or section, a fastening fdevice extending through the central plate or section and through the slots of the other sections, and the sides or legs composed of upper @body portions having ways, and the adjustable lower sections mounted in the ways, substantially as described.

: 6; In a device of the class described, a bot- Q'tom brace composed of the central plate or sectionhaving a top flange and provided at its. bottom with a rib, the sections 7 having loverlappedinner ends adjustably secured to the plate or section between the rib and the flange thereof, and sides or legs, substantially as described. i In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we havehereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses. 1 STEPHEN J. HESTER.

JAMES I. CARTER.

Witnesses:

S. T. DAUGHADAY,

W. A. BEADLES. 

